Street scenes

[madamasu]

Here are few more pictures from India.

First three street-scenes taken with the Elmarit 90mm @ f 4

Cows peacefully resting in a street in Jaisalmer, colours golden by the afternoon-sun. ISO 200




A woman watching the cows (same as above)






A camel-cart in Bharatpur. ISO 800 (don't ask me why)





Two with the Summicron 50mm.
Evening shopping in Jaisalmer @ f 2 ISO 1250





A beautiful cow standing in the middle of a street in Jodhpur.
@ f 4 ISO 320

[spleenone]

...is great to have FF camera right at the moment. Just like you. Captured great scenes which easily charming watchers like me

[trifox]

excellent set !!

great Thomas!

tf

[poilu]

great series, impressive elmarit!

[Nesster]

Fabulous, marvelous separation in #2 3 and the last cow face. Love em!

[Rolf]

No 3 is my fave. Great series. Perfect.

[Attila]

Cows are every where ! Great I did pick up first and last.

[madamasu]

Thanks for your friendly comments.

If I think back of my four weeks in India with 5 MF-lenses, I must say, there were only one or two occasions, when I regretted not having autofocus. But 5 Leica-lenses, "full-metal jacket", are pretty heavy to carry around, and I wonder, what I'll take along in August, when, after having reached my pension-age, I'll go to India and Bangladesh for four months. Two AF-Zooms, which I can also use manually? Plus maybe the Noct for taking pictures at night?

I love cows as much as Attila apparently does, and I could take pictures of them all day. In the great Fort of Jaisalmer they are everwhere, and when you meet them on one of the narrow cobblestone-walkways parallel to the outward ramparts, there is no way to get past them. You just have to go back and wait until they have moved.

So for cow-lovers I put up another picture, which, although you really can't see very clearly, shows a 600 pound-cow slowly hoofing up stairs. A really spectacular sight!

Thomas

Upward mobility. Elmarit 90mm @ f 4:

[spleenone]

Again fascinated! In these shot I realise power of photography in meaning freeze scene. Looks edited colours... but otherwise great effect of atmosphere.

[madamasu]

Thanks for the comment, spleeone.
The picture was taken against the sunlight and almost black and white. I fiddled with shadows/highlights in PS4 in order to get at least a little detail.

Thomas

[peterqd]

The beautiful ashlar stonework caught my eye, the labour involved in dressing each stone on 5 faces is enormous. It was used by Ancient Greeks and Romans, I'm amazed to see it here. It must be a very important building.

PS - I like cows too!

[Orio]

The series is simply perfect. It has so much of the flavour of the place that I seem I can even smell it.